Jhumpa Lahiri

"Introducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India 'the writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story.' Malgudi Days, featuring short fiction written over almost forty years, is the marvelous result. Here Narayan portrays an astrologer, a snake charmer, a postman, a vendor of pies and chappatis-all kinds of people, drawn in full color and endearing domestic detail. And under his magician's...